A 50-year-old lifeguard-cum-trainer on the Mangala Swimming Pool of the Mangaluru City Corporation died as he suffered a cardiac arrest whereas he was within the pool on Sunday. He held the report of performing 28 somersaults below water in a minute and made it to the Guinness World Records in 2003.
MCC Commissioner Ravichandra Naik mentioned Ok. Chandrashekar Rai was and outsource employees of the MCC. The pool was closed for public on Sunday when Rai received into the water solely to be discovered unconscious after some time by the watchman there.
The watchman instantly referred to as an ambulance that took Rai to the closest hospital, the place the medical doctors declared him ‘brought in dead’ and that the reason for loss of life was cardiac arrest.
Condoling Rai’s loss of life, rationalist Narendra Nayak, an everyday swimmer on the pool, mentioned in a Facebook submit that Rai learnt swimming at Mangala pool. He additionally labored as a supervisor in a number of residential flats in Manipal, the place he additionally labored as a lifeguard at a pool. A couple of years in the past, Rai began working on the Mangala pool, Mr. Nayak mentioned.
Mr. Nayak mentioned that on Saturday night, he complimented Rai for sustaining the swimming pool properly when Rai then informed him that he was on lifeguard responsibility that day as two others had been on go away.
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